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Amazon Expected To Post $22 Billion Revenues, Slim Profits This Afternoon
Amazon.com Inc. is expected to post strong revenue growth from the holidays when it reports fourth-quarter results after the market closes Tuesday, though profit margins will likely be squeezed by...
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Now Elon Musk Is Helping Boeing Save The 787 Dreamliner
Elon Musk has long considered Tesla Motors Inc the bold, nimble answer to the auto industry's cautious culture. Now the electric car maker's top executive has extended his help to another industrial...
View ArticleAre Medium & Quora Just The Rebirth Of Content Farms?
Three years ago a terrible collection of beasts rose from the sea and threatened the Internet we love so dear. These "content farms" churned out low quality prose in SEO-friendly formats to try and...
View ArticleInstagram Isn't An Indie Anymore
The question, inevitably, whenever someone sells out is how money and fame and fortune is going to change them, whether it's a band or an artist or a social network. And every social network that makes...
View ArticleWhy A Maturing Apple Freaks Us Out, And Why It Shouldn’t
Change — rapid, visceral change — is one of the most exciting things about the technology industry; when hard work and incredible foresight combine in a product or service that changes the world in...
View ArticleGoodbye Jody.
Jody.You’re gone too early. We still had so many more times to spend together.I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary.And it was the...
View ArticleGoodbye Jody. You Really Were Awesome
Jody.You’re gone too early. We still had so many more times to spend together.I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary.And it was the...
View ArticleThe Startup Visa
The President announced yesterday that he was in favor of a Startup Visa. Hallelujah.That led me to go back in time.The first time I posted about #startupvisa on AVC was September 23, 2009.The first...
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ANALYST: Amazon's Surging Stock 'Boggles My Mind'
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's fourth-quarter net income fell 45 percent, as sharply higher revenue failed to keep pace with increased spending on order fulfillment and digital content, a trend that's become...
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Ashton Kutcher: Playing Steve Jobs Was 'Terrifying'
The 34-year-old actor helped unveil the premiere of the biopic jOBS on Friday at the closing film of the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.Kutcher plays the Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs from the...
View ArticleHow The Next Billion Smartphones Will Be Sold
You can bet on continued rapid growth in the smartphone market. But ongoing unbridled profitability for its biggest players such as Apple and Samsung? That’s less of a sure thing.Korea’s Samsung last...
View ArticleAs Facebook Earnings Approach, Questions on Mobile Still Linger
It’s round three for Facebook’s quarterly earnings, but all eyes will still be on the same key areas of the company’s business: Social ads, payments and, of course, mobile, mobile, mobile.Despite...
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Why Facebook And Apple Are Doomed To Be Eclipsed
Nothing lasts forever: if history has any lesson for us, it is this. It's a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy's magisterial tome, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, in which he shows...
View ArticleNew App Makes Standardized Test Preparation Mobile
Students today are all too familiar with the standardized test. For a modern student, there are plenty of standardized tests to fret over—there’s the SAT, ACT, GMAT, LSAT, and GRE, to name a few. But...
View ArticleNew Mobile Development Platform Driving Cross-Development Trend
There are 354 million mobile devices in the U.S. The average American owns an average of 1.57 mobile devices, and that number is even higher in the rest of the world at 1.85. But many developers face...
View ArticleWe Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness
Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual.I didn’t set out that way. It just happened. Lots of tragedies in the past couple of months.Aaron Schwartz. Sandy Hook....
View ArticleA Valentines Day Chat
On February 14th, the entire USV partnership will be in Salt Lake City and so courtesy of our friend Bryce, we are going to do an event called Sessions @ The Leonardo. We've done this format before,...
View ArticleA Valentines Day Chat
On February 14th, the entire USV partnership will be in Salt Lake City and so courtesy of our friend Bryce, we are going to do an event called Sessions @ The Leonardo. We've done this format before,...
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Gadget Reviewers May Love The New BlackBerry, But Analysts Do Not
Research In Motion Ltd's glitzy unveiling of the long-delayed line of BlackBerry smartphones on Wednesday and a new corporate name failed to impress Wall Street analysts, with at least three...
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Top Tech Exec Has Awkward Entanglements In Iran
A Hong Kong-based firm that attempted to sell embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator has much closer ties to China's Huawei Technologies than was...
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